Because defendant grandfather’s molestations of his granddaughters were sufficiently “connected together” under the joinder statute, he had no right to have the molestation charges severed for trial on the basis they were joined only because they were “of the same or similar character.”
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In re M.K., No. 49S02-1505-JC-260, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 12, 2015).
“Because the trial court’s remarks and conduct, in their cumulative effect, breached the court’s duty of impartiality and amounted to coercion of Father, we reverse the CHINS adjudication.”
YTC Dream Homes, Inc. v DirectBuy, Inc., No. 45S03-1505-PL-264, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 12, 2015).
The determination of whether an out-of-state attorney is granted temporary admission should be made without restriction by local rule and within the discretion granted by Indiana Admission and Discipline Rule 3(2) – whether good cause exists for the admission of the attorneys.
Bd. of Commissioners of the County of Jefferson v. Teton Corp., No. 72S04-1410-CT-642, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 13, 2015).
Adopts the “any insurance” approach to the AIA waiver—“that as long as a property owner’s damages are covered by any property insurance policy used to insure construction-related damages (i.e., the work), the waiver applies to all damages”
Stephenson v. State, No. 15S00-1401-LW-40, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Apr. 23, 2015).
“We decline to find that the mere existence of an attempted suicide, without more, is relevant evidence of a person’s guilty conscience about committing a charged crime,” but in this case Defendant’s suicide attempt approximately a month after the alleged murder was properly admitted as relevant to his motive for committing the crime.